Asset managers are turning to alternative data sources in the wake of China’s coronavirus outbreak in order to identify the impact  the epidemic will have on their investments in the region. The human toll of the virus is still hard to fully quant...

In this month’s roundup, FiscalNote builds out its product leadership team, FactSet hires a new head of investor relations and Crunchbase continues to recruit for its rebrand. 

In a market-moving development, Consumer Edge announced that it has agreed to acquire Earnest Analytics, with the deal expected to clear by the end of the month.

A new set of tariff hikes from Trump have caused global market instability as investors search for the latest information.

Data buyers at our London Summit showed interest in sentiment analysis, nowcasts and consumer reviews data. 

In this month’s roundup, AlphaSense hires to its enterprise team, Crunchbase appoints a senior VP of sales, and Citadel hires a new head of equities engineering.

On 18th March, Sensor Tower announced that they acquired video game intelligence platform Video Game Insights (VGI). The merger will allow the longtime app data provider to expand its coverage of gaming analytics into PC and console data. 

On 23rd February, Germany joined a packed year of elections by heading to the polls for a federal election. Emerging victorious was Friedrich Merz’s centre-right CDU party, with far-right AfD coming in second. As a major global economy, Germany’s election results are forecasted to impact the financial sector in a variety of ways, with outsized impacts on defence, industrials and macro trends.

In this month’s roundup, Impact Cubed appoints a new Chief Investment Officer, YipitData promotes internally and NTAM significantly builds out their quant team.

In this month’s roundup, JPMorgan hires a new Executive Director of Vendor Management, BNamericas promotes a new CEO, and FIS appoints to its Enterprise Data and AI team.